Tuesday 29th January saw the fourth week of indoor eventing league take place at Gransha EC, near Bangor. Each week competitors have had to tackle a more challenging track of fences, expertly designed by Mark Robinson, including technical lines, skinnies and water trays. The same horse and rider combination must compete in 5 out of [...]
It was certainly a case of all roads leading to The Meadows on Saturday where the Lurgan Equestrian Centre was a hive of eventing activity. With almost 100 dressage entries, the judges, Vanda Robinson, Lynsey Craig and Fiona Morrow were kept occupied until after 3pm. Meantime the showjumping got underway ahead of schedule and continued [...]
Laurel View horses and ponies got a special New Year Makeover on New Year’s Day. Over the Christmas and New Year holiday period the riding school horses and ponies get a break from their regular ride routine, if the weather is favourable they escape to the fields to get their heads showered. But for the [...]
Ecclesville Centre, Fintona welcomed many of its regular competitors to the first of their Training Shows on Friday evening with all the classes being well supported. Raymond Caldwell built flowing courses to ease everyone back into competition after the winter break. The Training Shows will continue for the next four Friday evenings, commencing at 6.15pm [...]
THE Wellington Dressage CDI-W at the 2013 Adequan Global Dressage Festival (AGDF) in Florida USA drew to a close today (Sunday) with an Irish win. The featured class was the FEI Intermediare Freestyle. First place in the $6,000 FEI Intermediare Freestyle went to Ireland’s Sonia Zugel riding her mount Ungaro (Weltmeyer II x Wendekreis) with [...]
While it might still feel like the “depths of winter” and man & beast forgiven for remaining in hibernation, all at Ravensdale Lodge were glad to throw the doors open to the new competition season during the week. Well rested from the competition break of the past few weeks it was good to see some [...]
Strule Valley Riding Club Est 1997 Arena Eventing Competition Sunday 17th February 2013 1.30 pm Ecclesville, Fintona Classes 70cm 80cm 90cm 1 metre 1 metre 10 Everyone welcome – for more information phone Alison Donnell, Secretary on 82 246652/07835998979
Sunday 27th January saw the third show in Lime Park Equestrian’s Indoor Show Jumping League. Next Show Jumping is THE FINAL on SUNDAY 3RD FEBRUARY 2013. . To qualify riders must have jumped 2 out of the 3 shows and the final. Competitions are Beginners / Warm up (which is suitable for lead rein or [...]
With preparations for Journey Europe at a fevered pace and our living room looking like part tack room part crime scene we took some time off on Sunday to visit some friends and enjoy some music. If you’ve read the “Our Story” page you will know a little about Popcorn. She and her mother were [...]
A very successful show jumping point’s league came to an exciting and well supported conclusion on the 19th December at Laurel View. Accumulating the most points over the 12 week league to take the red league rosette over the 40 cm course was Katelyn Irvine and Pedro, with Megan Ingram and Thizbee a close second. [...]
Castle Leslie Equestrian Centre is delighted to welcome back top Dressage Rider Yvette Truesdale on Saturday 30th March 2013. Yvette will conduct a demo with her horse, ‘Has to be Fun’ , a 15 year old Grand Prix Dressage Horse who was Yvette’s partner at the Windsor Europeans and the winner of the Grand Prix at the [...]
Ecclesville Equestrian Centre, Fintona are running a five week Showjumping un-registered Training League for horses and ponies. The Training League will start on Friday 1 February, with the Final scheduled for Friday 1 March. The Shows will start at 6.15pm with a 40cm Class, which will be followed by 60cm, 70cm, 80cm, 90cm, 1m and [...]
HORSE Sport Ireland offer equestrian coaching courses accredited by Coaching Ireland. HSI Coaching courses are competition based coaching qualifications, using modern techniques to improve both horses’ and riders’ performance and are led by professional equestrian tutors. Places are limited on these exciting courses so book early to avoid disappointment! HSI are delighed to announce the following [...]
*Horse Sport Ireland Press Release* HORSE Sport Ireland has announced that Nick Turner will be the new High Performance Manager for Irish Eventing. Mr Turner is a Fellow of the British Horse Society (FBHS) and was an accomplished eventer who completed in 13 four star events. He stopped competing in 2008. In recent times he [...]
STRULE VALLEY RIDING CLUB in Omagh, Co Tyrone held a dressage competition recently at the RDA, Arvalee, Omagh by kind permission of Omagh Riding for the Disabled Association. Riders & their horses travelled from different parts of the country to compete – Strabane, Cookstown, Trillick, Enniskillen, Eglinton, Sion Mills & Omagh. Special thanks to judge Myra [...]
Balmoral Thursday Showing Results
Yearlings 21 COLT or GELDING, foaled in 2016, thoroughbred and non thoroughbred, entered in their respective stud book, likely to make a high class performer. Prize Cat. No Cat. Name Details 1st 53 Gibson, Mr Desmond ROLEX 2nd 60 O Gorman, Mr Kieran MURPHY 2 3rd 58 Martin, Mrs Pat CLOVER CHOICE 4th 55 Kirkpatrick, Mrs [...]
Balmoral Results Wednesday 10th May 2017
28 MARE or GELDING, 4 years old, capable of carrying over 14st [89kg]. Prize Cat. No Cat. Name Details 1st 137 Tierney Mrs Daphne BLOOMFIELD BADGER 2nd 134 McElligott, Richard F PUSHKIN 3rd 136 Rothwell, Mr. Derry GREENHALL HUNTSMAN 4th 139 Williams, Mr Ian MARLFIELD 5th 138 Wallace, Mr Trevor APPLE JACK 29 MARE or GELDING, 4 [...]
Knotts Bakery Sponsor Young Event Horse Championship
The RUAS are delighted to announce that Knotts Bakery is continuing their sponsorship of the Young Event Horse Championship at Balmoral Show 2017. There will be four year old and five year old classes which aim to identify high calibre horses bred in Ireland with the potential to become top class eventers. The Knotts Bakery [...]
RUAS Launch Four Day Balmoral Show
The Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS) today launched the 149th Balmoral Show in partnership with Ulster Bank. This year’s Show will provide an exciting mix of food, farming excellence and showmanship alongside an exhilarating entertainment schedule from 10th – 13th May 2017. With many new additions to the Show, news of a fourth day is proving the most [...]
Dublin Horse Show Officially Launched
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross TD officially launched the Dublin Horse Show today June 15th at the RDS, Dublin. The participation of many Rio-bound gold medal hopefuls at this year’s Dublin Horse Show means a change from the traditional August dates to July 20-24 for this summer institution. Despite the earlier date, [...]
